Tomb Raider’s return to the silver screen gets a second trailer

When the first trailer for the upcoming Tomb Raider movie debuted in September, I was hesitant to get excited about the movie. With the second trailer out, though, I’m starting to get my hopes up, if just a little bit.

The story fueling the movie seems to be cherry-picking bits of the 2013 Tomb Raider game and its 2015 sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider. The movie has our young explorer traveling to an island near Japan that has a Bermuda Triangle-like reputation with ships wrecking when near it more often than not. When she ends up on the island – post shipwreck – she finds an organization called Trinity hellbent on global genocide (what else?).

Visually, the trailer could almost be a direct lift from the games. Lara’s dressed right and Alicia Vikander looks very much the part of our intrepid burial bandit. And just about every shot in the latter half of the trailer has her getting the crap kicked out of her just as Lara does in the games.

I’m still concerned. Video game movies are, more often than not, real bad. When we’re lucky, they get as far up as barely acceptable. The chief talent on the movie doesn’t leave me very enthused, either. Star Alicia Vikander is a great choice of Lara, and Walter Goggins is always fun to watch.

Director Roar Uthaug is inexperienced as far as big-scale movies go, though, and writers Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons are pretty inexperienced. Robertson-Dworet has her name on Captain Marvel, Dungeons Dragons, Gotham City Sirens, M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armed Strike Kommand, and Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, so she must be turning a lot of heads, but whether or not her screenplays end up as good movies is still unproven.

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